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Chevy: We Don't Care That The "Our Country" Song Is Annoying And Everyone Hates It

Do you hate, "Our Country," the John Mellencamp song that Chevy uses to promote their line of trucks? You're not alone. Everyone hates it, according to Newsweek. More »

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Consumerist Confessions: Tell Us About Cars...

The Consumerist is interested in hearing from car salespeople and customer service representatives in the automotive field. We're looking for tips related to buying a new or used car. If you are or once were a car salesperson or worked in a car dealership and would like to confess, write to us at tips [at] consumerist [dot] com. More »

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Darcars Chevrolet Sells Used Truck As "New"

In July 2004, James bought from Darcars Chevrolet in Lanham, MD what he thought was a new Chevy S-10 truck. More »

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Drove My Chevy to the Levy But The Dealer Left Me Dry

Unlike Mark's Prius story, there's no confusion in this truck twister from Tennessee. Except, how did the dealership think they would get away with it? More »

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Buy a Sentra or a Cobalt?

"What's better, a Nissan Sentra or a Chevy Cobalt?" queried a reader, noting they could get a fully equipped Sentra for $14,500 and a comparibly tricked-out Cobalt for $13,600. More »

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Morning News Roundup

  • 7-Eleven is set to implement a new, testosterone-boosted ATM this year, providing even more banking solutions to the great unwashed
  • The all-embracing milk of corporate hegemony continues to disintegrate the Cinnamon Toast Crunch of the public domain, Showtime bought the Smithsonian's film archive, giving the commercial channel 'first refusal' rights over anyone trying to use the archive for documentaries and the like. [via]
  • The New York Times reports on the Chevy/Apprentice user-created ad site and its slew of anti-SUV ads. The site went live last Fridayish and the story was filed today. Not a bad turnaround; on the heels of a site redesign, is the old gray lady trying to hem its skirts up a little bit and show some, gasp, ankle?
  • Ejaculating energy prices have Exxon beating out Wal-Mart for the Fortune 500 #1 slot, as determined by revenue
  • Speaking of, Brokeback Mountain DVDs started selling today at Wal-Mart and everywhere else, amidst predictable conservative backlash (sounds kinky, no?) Let's see how long it takes the house of Sam Walton to pull it. Sidebar: where is our Brokeback Molehill parody?
  • A new study shows that black-oriented TV has substantially more fast-food ads than more general programming. Sounds like someone didn't realize Bamboozled was a satire.

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Consumer-Made Ad Mocks Chevy

With all the bloat and spasmodic jibbering about consumer-generated ads, it's nice to see one backfire. Chevy teamed up with The Apprentice to hold an online contest where you remix video and sound clips to make your own Chevy Tahoe ad. Winners receive their choice various expense paid trips. More »